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...late the Panama American's stormy crusading publisher, Nelson Rounsevell, has been enraging U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana cigarets, caused four of them to commit suicide. An Army investigation whitewashed officers. Last week Rounsevell was arrested on five criminal libel warrants, sworn out by topnotch U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone. Bail...
With $5 in his pocket, bulky, vigorous Author Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) arrived in Manhattan after four months abroad. Said he to newshawks: "There's one swell thing about Americans?as a race we are not snobs. . . . For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys...
Under the "Unholy Holy Land" caption, TIME, May 13, reports an article written by Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of The Christian Century. At first blush it is mildly surprising to find a cultured churchman indulging in the old chestnut game of dragging supposed Catholic inconsistencies from the fires of bigotry. In his article, he claims that Greek and Roman priests exercised more despicable charlatanry than the Palestinian dragomen, that a Franciscan monk pointed out in "Mary's house" the actual pillar at which the Virgin stood on the day of the Annunciation...
...upgrade. But if intelligent exploitation has brought a golf course to Galilee and good cocktails to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, it has not yet produced any change in the conduct of the Holy Land's traditional attractions, Biblical sites. This fact profoundly depressed Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, visiting Palestine on a cruise last month. Last week his weekly published his views on the "organized exploitation . . . the charlatanry of the organized exhibition of sacred things and places'' in "The Unholy Holy Land...
...Class of 1867 Scholarship for the second half of 1934-35 to John A. Moore '38, of Clayton, Missouri...